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15 Cards in this Set
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Foreshawdowing |
Is the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot. |
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Hyperbole
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An exaggeration to show emphasis |
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Idioms |
Words or phrases that cannot be taken literally |
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Personification
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Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things |
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Simile |
A comparison between two things using like or as. |
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Onomatopoeia |
Sound effects. |
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Setting |
Is the time and place in which a narrative occurs. Details of the setting often create atmosphere, the feeling created by a literary work or passage. Atmosphere contributes to the mood, the overall emotional quality of a work, which is created by the author’s language and tone, and the subject matter |
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Flashback |
A sudden and vivid memory of an event in the past. It is also an interruption in the sequence of events in the plot of a story to relate events that occurred in the past |
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Biography |
An account of a person’s life written by somebody else |
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Motif |
A recurring element, image, or idea that has a symbolic significance in a work of literature. A novel with the title Tangerine might make use of this image many times and in different ways. |
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Annotations |
NOTES |
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Point of view |
The perspective of which a story is told |
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Biography |
An account of a person’s life written by somebody else |
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Autobiography |
An account of a person’s life written by that person |
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Prediction |
A logical guess or assumption about something that has not yet happened |
